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TOOTH PASTE, AND BRUSH CASE Filed oct. 26, 1945 Patented July 6, lgll yUNITED i STATES PATENT vOFFICE,

2,444,488 A TOOTH PASTE AND BRUSH' casi:

Bradley F. Aschemeier, Plant City, Fla. Application October 26, 1945, Serial No. 624,854

1 claim. 1

The present invention relates to tooth paste and brush cases, and is more particularly concerned with a sanitary case constructed to hold a number of tooth brushes and a tube of tooth paste with means for gradually emitting the contents of the tube.

Another object of the invention is to provide a tooth paste tube and brush holder of the character stated of simpler and more compact construction than that disclosed in prior devices.

With the foregoing and other objects and advantages in view, the invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention,

Figure 2 is a like view with the door open.

Figure 3 is a top plan view.

Figure 4 is a side elevation.

Figure 5 is a vertical transverse section on line 5-5 of Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary longitudinal section, enlarged.

Figure 7 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of a modied form of the invention.

Like numerals are employed in the description and drawings to designate the same parts of construction.

The case is constructed with two compartments l and 2. The former is substantially cylindrical and adapted to contain a tube of tooth paste 3 to be inserted at the top in inverted position, while compartment 2 is designed to hold one or more tooth brushes and is substantially rectangular in shape with a hinged door 5, and provided with a swivel catch 6. The hinges may be provided with coiled springs to facilitate closing of the door. A number of dependent hooks 1, for suspending tooth brushes, are threaded into the upper wall of compartment 2. A removable horizontal partition 8 is provided at the bottom of the said compartment to hold an antiseptic and deodorant in paste, powder or liquid form In the wall between the two compartments is an elongated vertical groove for the reception of the inner end of a tube collapser 9.

The top I0 of compartment I is removable to permit the insertion of a tube of paste and replacements and the bottom of the compartment is circular and concave, as at II, to seat the top of an ordinary tube. The cap of the tube is removed before it is placed in this compartment and the neck of the tube is threaded into an orice I2 in the bottom of the compartment. Ex-

teriorly the orice is provided with an annular threaded neck to receive a cap I3 which seals the tube when not in use. To provide for a tube having a neck smaller in diameter an annulus provided with exterior and interior threads may be inserted in said orices.

The tube collapser 9 consists of a spindle I4, slotted longitudinally and adapted to operate vertically in an elongated slot I5 in the exterior wall of compartment I and the aforesaid groove in the wall between the two compartments. Exteriorly of compartment I the spindle I4 is provided with a knob I6 which is used to rotate the transversely disposed spindle through whose slot the straight edge bottom of the tube is rst inserted, thus rolling it up tightly and gradually collapsing the tube. This action is to force paste out of the orifice I2 when desired.

In the modied form of the invention illustrated in Figure 7, the paste tube case I'I is constructed separable from the case 2, so that it can be readily detached for the purpose of insertin a new tube of paste. To facilitate this it is constructed with a closed top and an open bottom adapted to seat removably in an annular holder I8 on case 2, constructed as illustrated in the preferred form. The tube case is provided adjacent the top with a clasp I9 adapted to engage with a projection on the abutting side of case 2.

Oppositely disposed vertical slots 2li and 2l, in case I'I, extend from the bottom thereof and end short of the closed top.

With this form of the invention, the full tube of paste is placed in the detached case, the flattened end thereof is inserted in the slot of the collapser 9 with the spindle I4 in slots 2i] and 2 I, and the case is then seated in holder I3 and attached at the top to case 2 by means of the clasp or any other suitable fastening means. A violet ray attachment for sterilizing brushes may also be installed in case 2.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a toilet cabinet, the combination, which comprises a rectangularly-shaped box-like cabinet having a vertically disposed cylindrical container at one side, said cylindrical container having a conically-shaped base with a threaded opening therein for receiving a threaded nipple at the end of a tube of tooth paste or the like, and an eXteriorly threaded nipple extending therefrom concentric with the said threaded opening, a cap threaded on said exteriorly thread- 3 4 d nibble, said cylindrical container having a vertically extending slot in the outer surface REFERENCES CITED thereof, a tube-collapsing roller positioned in The fOllOWing references are 0f record in the said cylindrical container having an actuating file 0f this patenti knob extending through said slot, said fboX-lke 5 TED cabinet having depending hooks for tooth brushes UNI STATES PATENTS and the like hanging from the inner surface of Number Nallle Date the upper end thereof, a removable horizontally 1,336,345 COrnelluS Apr. 6, 1920 disposed partition in said cabinet spaced from .11423305 D ayeh "-7 July 18, 1922 the lov'ver end thereof, and an arcuate hinged door 10v .1162410151 s011011 Apl- 12 1927 forming the outer surface of the box-like portion 1,344,049 YOung Oct. 4, 1927 of said cabinet. 2,111,181 Findley Mar. 15, 1938 BRADLEY F. ASCHEMEIER. 

